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22 February 2019

Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.

A marvellous showcase for O'Brien: not only his voice and his way
with a tune, but also the way he weaves together words and images
in a way that simultaneously please and - yes - slightly frighten
the listener

Doesn't so much follow up their debut as announce Wild Beasts as
one of our genuinely special bands, one that can compete - in terms
of both musical and lyrical ingenuity as well as sheer pop nous -
with any US act

If it's less wilfully uncommercial than his earlier oeuvre, which
frequently made the listener feel like they were being mugged in
the middle of an amusement arcade, its distorted synthesisers are
still edgily thrilling.